The Yearling Overview

The Yearling is a Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. This novel tells the story of Jody Baxter, a young boy living with his mother and father in the Florida woods around the end of the 19th century.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Biographies (5)

Biography EssayMarjorie Kinnan Rawlings is known primarily for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Yearling (1938). Most of her fiction and nonfiction deals with poor, backcountry Floridians (called...
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If Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's name is remembered today it is because of her beloved 1938 children's novel, The Yearling. This classic tale about a boy and his pet deer won the Pulitzer Prize for ficti...
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is known primarily for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Yearling (1938). Most of her fiction and nonfiction deals with poor, backcountry Floridians (called "crackers") and...
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The audience of good books for children, as everyone knows, has no age limits. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of The Yearling (1938), did not set out to write a children's classic, nor did she ever ...
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Although Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is best known as the author of The Yearling (1938) and thus--inaccurately--as a writer of children's books, her other novels deserve consideration as serious fictio...
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Essays & Analysis (2)

Jody, in The Yearling, learns that maturity means accepting difficult choices and facing reality through losing his best friend, his pet fawn, and running away from home. The first challenge Jody Ba...
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